I am looking for the names of five prominent (for whom I could find a
good deal of information on the web) "educational theorists,"
excluding Dewey, Piaget, Gardner and Vygotsky. I prefer those who do
not focus on very small children but rather middle and high school
age.

Thanks.

Hi ebillar,

On the basis of a web search, I suggest:

B. F. Skinner
Robert Gagné
Jerome Bruner
Albert Bandura
Benjamin Bloom

Backup/also ran:

Edward Thorndike


If some of those don't work for you, you can find more ideas in the
following pages, which were among those I reviewed in composing my
list:

Learning Theory Resources:  A Collection, by Marsha L. Burmeister, Ed.D.
http://www.nova.edu/~burmeist/learning_theory.html

Educational Theory Handbook, by Andrew Mclain Boatman
http://www.theshop.net/aboatman/edtheory.htm

A List for Educators: Influences Over One Hundred Years, by Maureen Connolly
http://asstudents.unco.edu/students/AE-Extra/2000/1/ma-m.htm


--efn